– London-based AI startup LabGenius, has raised £2.6 million in a Seed round led by Kindred Capital and Acequia Capital. Source: Shack15 News

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16 November 2017

– Behavox, a London-based company whose AI software can help financial institutions detect foul play in real time, has raised £15 million ($20 million) in a round led by multinational investment bank Citigroup. Source: Shack15 News

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10 November 2017

– Graphcore, a Bristol-based company whose processors could dramatically speed up the training of machine learning systems, is bound to raise £38.2 million ($50 million) in a Series C funding round by Sequoia Capital. Source: Shack15 News

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7 November 2017

– Autologyx, a London-based startup that leverages Artificial Intelligence to automate business processes, has raised £1.5 million in a pre-Series A investment round led by Beacon Capital. Source: Shack15 News

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25 October 2017

– British startup JamieAi has secured £1 million from Adrian Ezra. The company has built a recruitment platform for people working in data science and AI. Source: UKTN

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24 October 2017

–London-based Artificial Intelligence company Genus AI has raised £750,000 in a Seed round led by early-stage investment fund Picus Capital. The company combines machine learning with neuroscience, psychology, and behavioural science, in order to create emotionally intelligent AI. Source: Shack15 News

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12 October 2017

–AI-powered customer marketing platform Ometria has raised £4.52 million in a Series A round spearheaded by American firm Summit Action. Source: Shack15 News

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9 October 2017

–NearGroup, a company that developed a chatbot allowing users to find and connect with like-minded people nearby, has secured £1.2 million in a seed round led by London-based fund OpenOcean, and also backed by Neotribe and BoostVC.Source: Shack15 News

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27 September 2017

–Artificial Intelligence-powered identity verification company Onfido has secured £22 million in a Series C round led by Crane Venture Partners and backed by Microsoft Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures. Source: Shack15 News

–FiveAI, a British company working on self-driving cars, has raised £14 million in a Series A round led by Lakestar Capital and backed by Amadeus Capital Partners, Notion Capital and Kindred. Source: Shack15 News

–London-based startup Factmata, which is planning to use Artificial Intelligence to fend off fake news, has secured £575,000 in Seed funding from Mark Cuban and other investors. Source: UKTN

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4 September 2017

–London-based SentiSum, a startup using AI to deliver a better customer experience, has raised £540,000 in a Seed round from a number of investors including Angels in the City. Source: Shack15 News

–Prowler.io, a Cambridge-based startup building an Artificial Intelligence platform able to make decisions, has raised £10 million in a Series A round from Cambridge Innovation Capital and Atlantic Bridge Capital. Source: Shack15 News

via Prowler.io

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25 August 2017

–Sherpa, a UK-based startup that uses Artificial Intelligence to provide price comparison for insurance products, has raised £1.79 million in Seed from InsurTech.VC, alongside several angel investors. Source: Shack15 News

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24 August 2017

–Grid Edge, a startup aiming at improving energy efficiency by means of Artificial Intelligence, has raised £200,000 in Seed from Ignite, a fund focused on energy companies. Source: Shack15 News

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27 July 2017

–Callsign, a platform using AI to provide authentication, has closed a £26.8 million Series A round led by Accel and PTB Ventures, and backed by Allegis Capital and NightDragon Security. Source: Shack15 News

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25 July 2017

–B-Secur, a Belfast-headquarterd company working on biometric security solutions, has secured a £3.5 million investment from various investors, in clouding Accelerated Digital Ventures and Kernel Capital. Source: Shack15 News

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21 July 2017

–Graphcore, a Bristol-based company manufacturing processors that could dramatically speed up machine learning, has raised £23 million ($30 million) in a Series B funding round led by international VC firm Atomico. Source: Shack15 News

–Cybersecurity company Darktrace has raised £58 million ($75m) in a Series D round led by Insight Venture Partners, and backed by existing investors Summit Partners, KKR, and TenEleven Ventures. Source: Shack15 News

–Oxford AI company Diffblue has raised £16.9 million($22 million ) in a Series A round led by Goldman Sachs Principal Strategic Investments and backed by Oxford Sciences Innovations and Oxford Technology and Innovations Fund. Source: Shack15 News

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27 June 2017

–AI-driven health information service Your.MD has raised £7.7 million ($10 million) in new funding round led by Orkla Ventures. Source: TechCrunch

–London-based Mogees, a startup producing a smart microphone that uses machine learning to transform any vibration into original music, has raised £850,000 in seed funding from a group of investors including former Iglo Group CEO Elio Leoni Sceti, and Hotels4U founder Haim Perry. Source: Shack15News

–ThingTrax, a London-based start-up operating in the Internet of Things space, has raised £250,000 in Seed in a round led by Technology Venture Capital Investments and backed by AI Seed Fund and FOMCAP. Source: Shack15News

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16 May 2017

–London-based AI startup Vivacity Labs has secured a £1.6 million funding round from Downing Ventures, Tracsis and the London Co-Investment Fund.Source: Shack15 News

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3 May 2017

–London-based analytics startup Decibel Insight has secured £7 million in a Series A round led by Eight Road Ventures, and also backed by Ventureforgood.Source: Shack15 News

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27 April 2017

–Berkshire-based data science company Exonar has secured £1.25 million in a seed round led by Winton Group and Amadeus Capital, and backed by private angels. Source: Shack15 News

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25 April 2017

–London-based startup Babylon Health, an AI-powered healthcare app that offers virtual medical consultations, has secured £46.7 million ($60 million) in funding from a number of undisclosed investors. Source: Shack15 News

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10 April 2017

– Tenzo, an app using data analysis and machine learning to help restaurateurs run their business efficiently, has raised a £600,000 Seed round backed by Acequia Capital and Force Over Mass, alongside angels Charlie Songhurst, Michael Orland and Getti Restaurants. Source: Shack15 News

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5 April 2017

– London-based startup CheckRecipient, which uses machine learning to solve the problem of misaddressed emails, has secured £2.1 million in a Series A round led by Accel and LocalGlobe, and backed by Winton Ventures, Amadeus Capital Partners and Crane. Source: EU-Startups

– LoopMe, a London-based digital advertising startup powered by Artificial Intelligence, has raised further £8.1 million in a Series A Round led by Impulse VC and Harbert European Growth Capital. Other backers included Holzbrinck Ventures and Open Ocean Capital.Source: Shack15 News

– Starship Technologies, the London-based startup that is creating a fleet of autonomous six-wheeler robots for home deliveries, closed a £14 million Seed round. The round was led by German carmaker Daimler AG, and backed by Shasta Ventures, Matrix Partners, ZX Ventures, Morpheus Ventures, Grishin Robotics, Playfair Capital and HOF Capital, among many others.Source: Shack15 News

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– London-based Artificial Intelligence startup Cytora secured £2.4 million in a Series A round led by Parkwalk, and backed by Cambridge Enterprise, iLexIR , and a consortium of angel investors. Founded in 2013 by Andrzej Czapiewski, Aeneas Wiener, Richard Hartley, and Joshua Wallace, the company uses machine learning algorithms to scan the web in real time and detect trends about geopolitical risks that can be useful for insurance companies and financial entities.Source: Shack15 News